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Infected Cell Types In Ovine Lung Following Exposure To Bovine Respiratory Syncytial Virus, J. T. Meehan, R. C. Cutlip, H. D. Lehmkuhl, J. P. Kluge, Mark R. Ackermann

Mark R. Ackermann

Sixteen adult sheep (ten females, six males obtained from a closed flock at National Animal Disease Center, Ames, IA) were experimentally infected with bovine respiratory syncytial virus strain 375 (BRSV), and lung tissues were stained for viral antigen. Two infected sheep were euthanatized at each of the following post-inoculation times: 12, 24, 36, 48, 72, 96, 144, and 192 hours. Lung, nasal turbinates, trachea, right cranial bronchial and mediastinal lymph nodes, liver, and spleen were collected for histologic evaluation. An indirect immunoperoxidase technique was performed on routine paraffin-embedded sections of lung tissue, trachea, turbinates, and bronchial and mediastinal lymph nodes …